Metaphysical Definition

mĕtə-fĭzĭ-kəl
adjective
Of, connected with, or having the nature of, metaphysics.
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Very abstract, abstruse, or subtle.
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Beyond the physical or material; incorporeal, supernatural, or transcendental.
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Designating or of the school of early 17th-cent. English poets, including esp. John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Abraham Cowley, whose verse is characterized by very subtle, highly intellectualized imagery, sometimes deliberately fantastic and far-fetched.
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Origin of Metaphysical

  • Middle English metaphisicalle from Medieval Latin metaphysicālis from metaphysica metaphysics metaphysics

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Grammatically derived from "metaphysics"

    From Wiktionary

Metaphysical Sentence Examples

  • He was a metaphysical puzzle to me.

  • As he grew older his metaphysical optimism waned.

  • These three stages are the Theological, the Metaphysical and the Positive.

  • Metaphysical realism is the intermediate view that everything known is either body or soul, neither of which alone exhausts the universe of being.

  • This metaphysical method, which we have already seen attempted by Lotze, is the true method, for we know more about things than about the beginnings of our knowledge.

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